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Publisher's Description

An elegant analysis tool for everyone interested in web standards. It's like surfing the web with an x-ray view. Using Xyle scope you will deepen your understanding of XHTML and CSS, find out how your peers did it, and see your own work with fresh eyes.

The synchronized views of Xyle scope let you easily focus on specific parts of the HTML or CSS sources, view the CSS Cascade and formatting box of HTML elements, and change CSS values in third party sites. Features include:

Immediate display of the HTML and CSS sources of the page being visited.

Automatic formatting of source files using an unlimited number of customizable CSS style sheets

Hierarchical navigation in HTML documents.

WYSIWYG selection of HTML elements via clicking in the web page being displayed.

Computation of the full CSS cascade for each selected HTML element

Lists all HTML elements matching a given selector (e.g. by clicking on a selector in a CSS source file or the computed cascade)

...browsersThis review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.I don't use the application all the time but the unique ability of it to display the div you are working but also the margin area is invaluable. when you have to update an old version of a website done before anyone with any real depth of CSS skills you have to hack things about... this helps iron out the creases in browsers that don't follow the box model rules (and it is not only IE).

I recommend this software to any developer and you will quickly recoup the expense of the software in the time saved in head scratching.

when all else fails and the brain is melting throw it into XYLE to see what is what.

and as to the information that is passed back the developer... I'm not sure how they will hack into my bank account with my RAM details.

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.Like norliss, I had never heard of this application, and stumbled across it quite by accident... If you create web pages at all, particularly if you do any css work this app is for you. It is well designed, with a very nice interface, which displays a wealth of information in a logical and understandable way.

Although I've been coding/designing sites for over 18 months and was already familiar with BBEdit, CSSEdit
etc yet to my shame I'd not heard about this app until very recently.

I won't quote chapter and verse over what it's about (you can read that elsewhere) suffice to say it's an excellent
application and is well worth the $20 license fee. As great as it is, it isn't the "full package" in as much as you will still need an editor
for your html & css, however the developer seems keen to take it a long way and I've no doubt he will.

What is especially pleasing is the great support offered. I e-mailed the developer a few times before becoming a paying customer
and the replies were swift, curteous and detailed. Mr MacRabbit could learn a lot from this guy!

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.As a student learning (X)HTML & CSS etc, I am forever looking for little tools that not only make life easier but also help me learn. Xyle Scope is one for those tools.
It really is like an X-ray machine for websites. Gives an indepth look at how other websites are put together and I would imagine this would be just as useful to a professional coder as it is to someone at a beginner/intermediate level (ME!)
As far as I know, nothing else like this exists. Unique, fun and insightful. Essential! (and inexpensive!)
BRILLIANT! :-))

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com... but for a v.1 app this is simply amazing. Very detailed and flexible tool for understanding, explaining, and, ehm, figuring out how others did it. Paid gladly, and hope developer extends this.

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